In box review of this gorgeous little kit from Meng. Look out for my next review, which will be the aftermarket for this.. Support the channel here.. www.patreon.co...
Very nice model I like the information sheet with the painting schemes the Germans were very advanced with there rocket planes (good video thanks Nigel)
Could you please ask the Companies that manufacture planes that they should make such planes in 1/35 scale and not in 1/32 scale? In Armour probably the most popular scale is 1/35. There would be so many diorama possibilities if one could have Me 109’s and Lancasters in 1/35 scale. For example have an tracked Anti Aircraft vehicle next to a downed fighter plane. If any Modellers agree with me please vote this comment up.
Agree, but it should be the other way round. AFV kits used to be 1/32, i think it was Tamiya who changed to 1/35? then everyone followed suit. Bronco recently did a T-34 in 1/32.
Tamiya created this awful problem, in the late 60s, by matching a Panther body to the size of batteries, ruining scale cohesion for all of modelling, perhaps forever... All this for neatly packaging batteries inside a forgotten running model... This choice was definively solidified in 1973 by Italeri adopting 1/35, turning the scale into an unstoppable juggernaut for armor, killing off 1/32 and 1/48 armor almost instantly... Tamiya then worsened this, 26 years later, by reviving 1/32 scale for WWII aircrafts with their 1999 A6M5 Zero. It was a massive industry-wide revival for 1/32 WWII prop models, and a real disaster for any widespread WWII diorama scale cohesion... Tamiya really has done all it could to disrupt any cohesion between WWII subject scales, even ruining their reintroduction of 1/48th by simplifying these kits for an imaginary entry level market... I never liked the larger scales for aircrafts, as the size exacerbates skin detailing issues, and makes the shadows under the wings too large and too dark, because the harshness of typical indoor lighting often combines poorly with the much taller stance of the model... But I would still approve of any cohesion between the scales, for the diorama reasons you mention. I dislike Tamiya so intensely for what they did, I actually boycott their products whenever possible... Again, they ruined aircraft diorama building for the whole world, perhaps forever, to neatly size a tank hull to fit BATTERIES... This is historically verified from primary sources, not some baseless urban legend. Yes there were a few 1/35 scale tank kits before Tamiya, but these were derived from US WWII recognition models, and so had absolutely no influence on the Tamiya decision. In fact the industry had long forgotten those crude 1/35 originals from the 50s, when Tamiya "revived" 1/35 in the late 60s...
With eduard PE instrument panel's,even in \48 you can put cellophane inbetween the backplate and bezel plate.CA doesnt effect the cellophane.Be lot easier in \32.
@@NigelsModellingBench I built the Heller/Humbrol 1/72nd Komet many years ago, but the captured version* sold the 1/32nd one to me, as I can remember the documentary with Winkle Brown describing flying it! *As I will be doing a 'captured' Tamiya He162 in RAF colours to keep my captured Airfix BF109 company (both 1/48th) ;) I was also given a vintage Airfix Shorts Stirling (by my Corvette client) - that I may do in German colours (I've spent too much time on the Hannants website :D
